Passionate about #SystemsBiology and ready to lead your own research group? Join us at the forefront of discovery — apply now to be a #GroupLeader at the NOVA Institute for Medical Systems Biology, in beautiful Lisbon, PT! Appl. by Oct 8: www.nature.com/naturecareer... #ScienceJobs #JobOffer

Systematic benchmarking of computational methods to identify spatially variable genes. #SpatialTranscriptomics #MethodsBenchmarking #GenomeBiology genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Great opportunity to work with the fabulous Jenny here.

New publication | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1/12 A very special moment for me! 🎉 My first paper as corresponding author—a @jcb.org Perspective on how contact-based decision-making in collective cell migration can itself encode blueprints for complex patterns and shapes. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #cellbio #devbio #science 🧵for details

Starter packs are still valuable but there is now a mature set of communities @bsky.app So maybe for the last time (unless things change) An encyclopaedia of starter packs relevant to 'mechanistic' biomedical science (>100 now!)... ...including collective nouns docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I was Chair of @biologists.bsky.social when we started this initiative, the brainwave of the @stevenkelly.bsky.social It was an imaginative idea and I am thrilled to see this landmark Remember: @biologists.bsky.social are the goodies in scientific publishing!

Energy transition and UK politics. This is an area where I am definitely an amateur, armchair expert, but interested and can... read a chart etc. Politically I am just a citizen really. Still I think we're going to be entering an interesting phase in the energy transition and UK politics.

Fab thread about one of the (many) things one walks past in Oxford without much thought...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

So do I!! Thank you @biologists.bsky.social!

It was fun to look back over a decade of 'From Stem Cells to Human Development' meetings at @dev-journal.bsky.social. This is one of the projects I most enjoyed during my time at the journal - and I really hope we helped to catalyse and support a community... journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Another tour-de-force paper led by Bluesky-free Alberto Stolfi, who pushed it through the finish line in his lab at Georgia Tech 🙌🏻🙏🏻 From transcription to alternative RNA splicing, AchR aggregation and neuromuscular junction formation #Ciona neurodevelopment at its best 🤩 @msarscentre.bsky.social

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

I am advertising for a #postdoc for a 3 year BBSRC-funded project exploring the role of macrophages in salivary gland development. The successful candidate will be based at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social. Closing date: 9th Oct. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Immune Cells control everything, neurons are there as scaffolding Suck it, neuromonkeys!

Honoured (and excited!) I was named among this year's Birnstiel awardees for my PhD work! 🎉

A flawless reflection 🌧️ 📷 Instagram | Spiralling_Oxford

Just one more week left to get an application in! Starting my lab at the Perutz and the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social has been a fantastic opportunity that shaped me as a scientist!

Another exciting opportunity @dunnschool.bsky.social ! Come and be a colleague to a great group of scientists working on the fundamental mechanisms underlying disease, and how to transform health Please help us find great applicants

Issue 16 is complete! On the cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei and F-actin. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition. thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...

"Yet, despite their growing availability, access to embryos for research remains restricted." Read this Perspective from @marta-shahbazi.bsky.social and colleagues on an important and necessary discussion for science and society. Published today in @dev-journal.bsky.social ↓

Whitehead Institute honors the life and legacy of Nobel Laureate David Baltimore (1938–2025), its Founding Director and a globally revered scientific leader. 1/4 lnkd.in/eUKd4zxh

1/11 In @science.org: A new perspective on how our intestines renew. Cells are not “pushed out” by crowding or die from apoptosis. Instead, cells play a mechanical tug-of-war, where weaker cells extrude, reframing gut renewal as force-regulated. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are hiring-join us!

Previous preprint is now published in RSC Chemical Biology. If you are interested in plasma membrane labeling, see the paper! 👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Our PhD studentship programme is officially open; pass it on If you are looking for a fully-funded PhD in the mechanisms underlying human disease, here are the details... Great science and a great environment! www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...

The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 20+ fully-funded positions in the Autumn Call which is now open. Please share. Further details: www.vbcphd.at

Have a look at my featured image with FocalPlane. It's a thymus, I swear 🦋

One of the best arguments I have read about DEI: Gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...

Cancer cells are notoriously plastic, but what triggers the changes in cell state? In our new Nature (@nature.com)‬ paper, Miranda Hunter (@mrndhntr.bsky.social‬) found that mechanical pressure is a key to this switch. Check it out here: go.nature.com/47iwDm2

Inspiring testimony from Max, PhD candidate student in my group @msarscentre.bsky.social, on his transformative experience at the embryology course @mblscience.bsky.social

I'm thrilled to share I’ve been awarded a @erc.europa.eu starting grant! #ERCStG #fertiliMMUNE will uncover how the immune and reproductive systems communicate, with the aim to improve fertility outcomes. I'm incredibly thankful to my amazing lab, collaborators, peers & ERC for their support!

🥳 Very grateful for the support of the ERC Starting Grant for my newly established lab! We will study how transposable elements contribute to mammalian embryonic development. We will have positions available next year. Stay tuned!

🥳 Thrilled to share that our lab has been awarded an ERC StGrant for our project SigReg: Signal to Regeneration! How can we unlock limb regeneration in adult mammals? It’s time to apply what we learned from 🐸 ➡️ 🐭 Thank you @erc.europa.eu for supporting ambitious science!!!

Thrilled to share that our group will be supported by an ERC Starting Grant! 🚀 With the project 'DECIPHER', we will decode and perturb gene regulation to engineer human cell subtypes, niches, and maturation. We’ll soon be recruiting at all levels — stay tuned for opportunities to join us!

Thrilled to share that our lab has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for QUANTAGE! 🎉 We will build a quantitative framework of tissue architecture to bridge molecules, cells, tissues & organs — uncovering how aging unfolds and disease begins.

Bravo @aniaczark.bsky.social !!! 🥳🥳🥳

Congratulations to all the ERC Starting Grant awardees 🧪 including @alvarezprado.bsky.social & @lbejarano.bsky.social, two brilliant former postdocs from my lab who have started their own labs this year in 🇱🇺 and 🇪🇸 Could not be more proud of Leire and Ángel 🤩 🎉 🎉 🎉 #proudmentor 😊 #ERCStartingGrant

👋Introducing Ingrid - the new Reviews Editor for @dev-journal.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/introducing-...

Beautiful story that combined mechanobiology, evolution, and the power of fly (opto)genetics to make sense of the cephalic furrow. It was a pleasure writing the News & Views. No doubt this is still just the beginning for the field of mechano-evo-devo! Hats off to all involved

Congratulations to Michael and Anna - just exciting, multi-disciplinary science from young group leaders @embl.org

Thrilled to share 🎉 I’m starting my lab at University of Zurich, DMLS as Assistant Professor (tenure track) from Jan 2026! The Neural MorphoGenomics & Developmental Dynamics Lab will be exploring how genes + morphogenesis shape brain development with organoids, imaging & spatial genomics 🧠🔬🧬

Wow. Check this out. Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Inspired by @deniswirtz.bsky.social and team, I'm collating a database of #PhD and #postdoc fellowships in the #EU. I'm standardising the information an entry needs, making it easier to (1) search and (2) contribute - and I would appreciate input, especially from other #ECR! Please share! 1/3

Aria Huang's @azyhuang.bsky.social paper is out on beautiful embryonic kidney 3D cultures that branch properly and enable live defect analysis. She also finds intriguing effects of adhesion and stiffness on explant size, shape, and nephron formation - boundary conditions matter! rdcu.be/eBSUK

Yours truly amongst the Fellows. Great group of people, meeting in person in December in a British Pub. This will be remembered as an infamous day in the Dev Bio field, mark my words! 🧪